CloudflareRadarURLScanner
Cloudflare URL security scanner
About this crawler
CloudflareRadarURLScanner is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern CloudflareRadarURLScanner in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block CloudflareRadarURLScanner traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- CloudflareRadarURLScanner
- Pattern
CloudflareRadarURLScanner- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/cloudflare-radar-url-scanner
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- rDNS suffixes
.cloudflare.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely CloudflareRadarURLScanner with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.cloudflare.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CloudflareRadarURLScanner; +https://radar.cloudflare.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow CloudflareRadarURLScanner:
User-agent: CloudflareRadarURLScanner
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} CloudflareRadarURLScanner [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "CloudflareRadarURLScanner") {
return 403;
}
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